beejjorgensen

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hmm. I have a bumper sticker that says "I ❤️ Nuclear War". I wonder what bucket that puts me in.

 

I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I remember it being a big space sink when I was editing video. Now all I have is DVD rips of my collection and those are nice and compact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Oh, man, I'd forgotten about this game! Used to play it on the C64!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yup. I signed up to their unlimited a while ago, so I was happy to not notice this at all. 🙂👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I can't believe how much mileage I've gotten out of my 512GB SSDs on my laptops. And my "big" backup disks are hand me down 1TB HDs my friend didn't need. I don't do video, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

I'm not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I'm not a big corporation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I've been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that's easily used. But it sounds like it's about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, yes Mozilla, I'm sure the reason people aren't switching to Firefox is because it lacks good advertising support.

100%, Google is leaning into Mozilla to make this happen.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Fuck the ad-based Internet right back to the putrid hole it came from. The second uBO stops working is the second I stop using that browser.

I wasn't always this way. I used to not block ads to help support creators. I used to have ads on my website 15 years ago. And for this transgression, I sincerely apologize.

Now I make money at my day job and everything I post, which is a substantial amount, is free and untracked (except for 5 days of web server request logs).

Sure I can't write full time with this model, but we're billions of people. If we each just made 10 minutes of good content a week, that's more than we can possibly consume.

And I'd rather have more good content than I could possibly read than the mountains of AI-generated SEO tripe that advertising brings.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We found no correlation between price and protection, with the highest-performing helmet being one of the less expensive, retailing at around £50.

What a scam. I'll bet the same thing happens with motorcycle helmets.

 

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

 

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

 

Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

 

This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

 

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